I call my glasses/specatcles "bins". And my brother calls contact lenses "Duncans"; Duncan McKenzies -> lenses.

Crikey you must be mad, I am presently studying for my anatomy & physiology exam in May, it is a nightmare

She is.

"Gay" is a good one. I think that is acceptable now, but only in addition to the traditional meanings.

Nah - I think although he wasn't in attendance, Sandra left a great deal with us.

You delegated as good leaders should

My hubby is shocking for that...the other week he said he had the Ertha's, I asked what that was he said the Ertha Kitts then went to the toilet

Oh! Cockney Rhyming and other slang is always OK! It's when people use substitute words to replace the originals and actually mean them that it goes a bit wrong. It's really just people trying to be pretentious during the 19th and 20th centuries and attempting to "distance" themselves from the lower classes by using their "new, superior" language. Unfortunately for them, the Upper classes never bought into it, were confident enough in themselves to carry on with the traditional lingo and now use the "new" language as the yardstick to measure the distance between them and the upstarts.

So, rather than bringing them closer to the aristocrats, the "new" English merely served to define the new middle class. The upper classes still use language as the main indicator of which class you are. Brilliantly - the working classes, whom the "middles" wanted to leave behind, now share the majority of their vocabulary with the aristos. That's why I'm fiercely protective of my working class words - I despise social climbing and snobbery.

Middle-middles really get on my threepenny bits, and steam up my bins.

Ah-HA!
That is you in the picture.

A bit scary, that picture. Do you use field glasses from Paull Holme tower? Wrong job, though - I keep telling you!